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  2. Star (glyph) - Wikipedia

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    eight-pointed black star : U+2734 eight-pointed pinwheel star U+2735 eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2737 heavy eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2738 circled open center eight-pointed star U+2742 eight-pointed cuneiform star ð’€­: U+1202D rub-el-hizb: Ûž: U+06DE Bamum script (Phase D) ngkyee U+16913

  3. Octagram - Wikipedia

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    The regular octagonal star is very popular as a symbol of rowing clubs in the Cologne Lowland, as seen on the club flag of the Cologne Rowing Association. The geometry can be adjusted so 3 edges cross at a single point, like the Auseklis symbol An 8-point compass rose can be seen as an octagonal star, with 4 primary points, and 4 secondary points.

  4. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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    Marian star, a six-pointed star used as a Roman Catholic symbol of celestial objects; Rub el Hizb, a common Islamic symbol; alQuds Star, a star representing 'alQuds' (Jerusalem) Haykal, a five-pointed star that represents the Bahá'í Faith; Nine-pointed star, a common symbol of the Bahá'í Faith that represents unity and Bahá’.

  5. Star of Ishtar - Wikipedia

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    The star of Inanna usually had eight points, [1] though the exact number of points sometimes varies. [2] Six-pointed stars also occur frequently, but their symbolic meaning is unknown. [3] The eight-pointed star was Inanna's most common symbol, [1] and in later times became the most common symbol of the goddess Ishtar, Inanna's East Semitic ...

  6. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t É™r ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek á¼€στερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.

  7. Venus in culture - Wikipedia

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    The eight-pointed star a symbol used in some cultures for Venus, and sometimes combined into a star and crescent arrangement. Here the eight pointed star is the Star of Ishtar , the Babylonian Venus goddess, alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of their father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II , dating ...

  8. Star of Lakshmi - Wikipedia

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    October 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Star of Lakshmi The Star of Lakshmi is a special octagram , a regular compound polygon, represented by Schläfli symbol {8/2} or 2{4}, made from two congruent squares with the same center at 45° angles, and figures in Hinduism , commonly misattributed to Ashtalakshmi ( Sanskrit ...

  9. Star (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The Stella d'Italia ("Star of Italy"), popularly known as Stellone d'Italia ("Great Star of Italy"), [10] is a five-pointed white star, which has symbolized Italy for many centuries. It is the oldest national symbol of Italy , since it dates back to Graeco-Roman mythology [ 9 ] when Venus , associated with the West as an evening star, was ...